Treasures from Moscow. Dutch drawings from the Pushkin Museum

17.03 – 12.06.2011 - During TEFAF 2011

The exhibition Treasures from Moscow displays the 90 best seventeenth-century drawings mainly by Dutch artists from the collection of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. This makes the Bonnefantenmuseum the first place outside Russia to exhibit such a large number of these works in 150 years.

The exhibition presents a chronological and thematic overview of Dutch drawing from the 17th century. It includes drawings by Rembrandt, Abraham Bloemaert and Adriaen van Ostade. There are drawings by artists born in the Netherlands, as well as those from elsewhere who sought refuge in the 17th -century centre of the arts, such as Gerard de Lairesse from Liège and Gerard ter Borch from Zwolle.

In his choice of objects, the compiler was prompted mainly by the quality of the art works, and then by trying to present a diversity of themes, compositions and functions. For instance, sketches will be displayed alongside fully detailed figure and composition studies. In this way, the exhibition will give a splendid – and hitherto practically unprecedented – overview of Dutch drawing in the Golden Age, as well as a glimpse of the history of Dutch art collecting in Russia. 

The exhibition is accompanied by the extensive scholarly catalogue: The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts - Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the XVI-XVIII Centuries, Belgian and Dutch Drawings of the XIX-XX Centuries. This catalogue, which is based on the existing Russian catalogue, was compiled on the initiative of the Foundation for Cultural Inventory (SCI) together with the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, under the supervision of Charles Dumas from the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).

The exhibition can be seen in the Bonnefantenmuseum during TEFAF 2011 and TEFAF Paper (18-27 March). 

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	© Cornelis Troost; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
	© Jan Victors; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
	© Rembrandt van Rijn; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
	© Adriaen van Ostade; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
	© Karel Dujardin; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
	© Hendrick Goltzius; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
	© Jan van Goyen; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
	© Nicolaes Berchem; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
	© Cornelis Bega; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
	© Hendrick Avercamp; State Pushkin Museum Moskou.